#deafness

I, the hearing impaired

a poem

Should Deaf Children Learn Sign Language?

The controversy about deaf children learning Sign Language

Otoferlin, Otarmeni and a new era for addressing hereditary deafness

Hearing depends on a remarkably precise biological system inside the inner ear, where tiny mechanosensory hair cells convert sound…

The Silence That Wasn’t in the Room: How a Cochlear Implant Gave Me My Life Back

In 2016, I woke up in a hotel room and thought, “This is the quietest room I’ve ever stayed in.”

Four Persistent Myths About Deaf Children — And What Actually Helps

Editor’s Note: A version of this piece originally appeared in my ebook, That Deaf Kid. Revisiting it now, I can still see how these myths…

About Deafness In A World

Of Ear - Numbing Chaos~~~

Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Raising awareness of a poorly understood condition

The 96th Percentile Anomaly: A Parent’s Guide to Deafness

How undiagnosed deafness shaped my life, my trauma, and my career, and how to spot the signs in your child.

Rethinking Terminology, Identity, and Language Development in the Deaf Community

The terminology historically used to describe Deaf individuals is deeply rooted in misconceptions about language, cognition, and…

Cochlear Implant Failure — Part 9 Video Talk by Dr Akbar Abbas

Understanding Cochlear Implant Complications — Insights by Dr. Akbar Abbas

Cochlear Implants: A Life-Changing Option for Elderly Patients

Cochlear Implant Activation in a Young Girl | Post Surgery

AK-OTOF-101: How the gene therapy that restores hearing work

How AK-OTOF-101 uses two rAAVs to provide a gene essential for hearing. in a first ever, the gene therapy…

A Journey Into Our Humanness

My son Manny is almost 28 years old, and he is deaf and autistic. For years he has engaged in self-injurious behavior, and these scars are…

WHAT? EH?

I didn’t write those words. They were cut and pasted, probably from an American lamenting his or her or our or their hearing loss (Pick any…